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i suspect i may be in a minority here however i voice strong opposition to a reset of the LBs.   (here  goes...)

By all means remove those scores that are clearly fraudulent by dint of fact they are well beyond all other scores for the table. And, yes i understand that a score earned on a table that uses a high currency value can readily be transferred to another that uses a much lower currency (if one happens to know the exploit);

Question (to those who are aware of the exploit): does the exploit affect all tables or only some?  (i guess the question's irrelevant to the discussion. It happens.  But maybe is relevant to FS if any investigation takes place into who's been cheating, and which tables are affected)

However many of us are unaware of the bug, and also have no inclination to use it either. what is the point of setting an absurdly high score for a table ? everyone clearly knows it to be fake? and it just makes the poster look like a dick. Ok, so some cheaters might be more subtle in their deception and might submit a score only marginally higher than honestly-attained scores.  But so what ???  The dishonest score posted won't appear to be 'in question' and merely serves to incentivise other players to better it. A close-to-the-rest, dishonest score has little negative impact.

I'm sure the majority are completely unaware of the exploit less still would care to use to deceive others, and indeed ourselves also, even if we did know it.

I've put in many hours to get the honest scores i have on certain tables. i'd be very disappointed if they were to wiped out, and presumably also my HOF points? (i already lost my HOF points & local scores, 2-3 months back. i didn't play much for a couple of weeks thereafter, i was that distraught)

i have no intention of every playing Dr Dude again (it drives me mental)...i want my 43mil to stand ;-) 

My Whitewater score, whilst not something i couldn't aspire to reach or better in future, is again a score from one of my far better that average games (Tip: despite what you've heard, beer doesn't actually enhance performance...but dark chocolate seems to...and is legal)

I'd have thought a fairer option would be to remove all scores on all tables where the score is quite clearly out-of-scope or for anyone found to have been dishonestly exploiting the bug and who has not come

forward to admit to their mistake (you're covered here Frank!). A ban also for that username posting any further scores to any tables until the bug is patched.

Once the bug is patched and the exploit removed, we don't need to worry about users banned from posting scores from re-registering with different user names, they'll have to work for their scores like the rest of us do.

thanks for reading

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